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Author : Arthur Bingham Walkley
Publisher : London : T.F. Unwin
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCAL:$B276106
Author : A B. walkley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1159853757
Author : Arthur Bingham Walkley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Drama
ISBN : LCCN:82049102
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Actors
ISBN : CUB:U183021651125
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317398929
Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.
Author : A. B. Walkley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1022123637
A collection of theater reviews and commentary by a noted British playwright and critic. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jean Chothia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315504193
The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre: the age of Wilde and Shaw and a generation of influential actors and managers from Irving and Terry to Guilgud and Olivier. Jean Chothia's study is in two parts beginning with a portrait of the period, setting the narrative context and considering the dramatic social and cultural changes at work during this time. It then focuses on some of the main themes in the theatre, from Shaw and comedy, to the rise of political and radio drama, providing an interpretative framework for the period. This volume will be of great benefit to students and academics of English literature and drama, as it covers the work of the major dramatists of the period as well as considering the dramatic output of literary figures, such as James, Eliot and Lawrence.
Author : George Taylor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Acting
ISBN : 071904023X
Author : Irving Wardle
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571300464
'You have discovered a perishable treasure, and it is imperative to share it with other people before it fades... You have only one chance to get it right, while the impression is still fresh...' If critics often disagree among themselves over the merits of a given work, this is nothing compared to the wider argument about what the critic's role should be - Objective judge? Consumer guide? Provocateur? - and whether or not those practising criticism are living up to their duty to the 'perishable treasures' on which they pronounce. In Theatre Criticism, first published in 1992, Irving Wardle sets out to define the credentials and aims of this vexed profession. Tracing its origins to Dryden and the Grub Street writers of Georgian London, Wardle goes on to examine the prejudices, questions and practices of modern reviewing, drawing on three decades' worth of his own experience.
Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520286870
The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Author : Chris Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351764698
This title was first published in 2000: The American novelist and playwright, Henry James, was drawn to the theatre and the shifting conventions of drama throughout his writing career. This study demonstrates that from the 1890s onwards James concentrated on adapting his novels and stories to and from the stage, and increasingly employed metaphors that spoke of novel-writing in terms of playwriting. Christopher Greenwood argues that these metaphors helped James to conceive himself as an artist who composed characters dramatically and visually, and in doing so sets his novels significantly apart from those of his contemporaries. In the introduction to the first part of the book, Greenwood examines James's career within the context of contemporary European and North American theatre, providing an appraisal of what James gained from contemporary theatre, his position in that milieu, and what he brought to it. Part 2 of the book focuses on two novels: "The Other House" and "The Spoils of Poynton", both of which illustrate the ways in which James used the mechanism of contemporary theatre to communicate a character's personality. Discussion of these two works is used to throw light on similar concerns that develop in James's later writing.
Author : Jane Milling,Joseph Walter Donohue (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521650687
Volume Two begins in 1660 with the restoration of King Charles II to the throne and the reestablishment of the professional theater. It follows the far-reaching development of the form over more than two centuries to 1895.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Marina Dahlquist,Doron Galili,Jan Olsson,Valentine Robert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253033680
Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity. Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.
Author : Arthur Bingham Walkley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330932277
Excerpt from Playhouse Impressions This is a book of reprints. About half the articles are from the Speaker; the rest (except one from Black and White, and a fragment from the Illustrated London News) are from the National Observer and the Star. To the several editors who have courteously sanctioned their republication I tender grateful thanks. As essays in dramatic criticism they do not pretend to be systematic or authoritative. Their sole aim has been to fix and record the fleeting sensations of the moment. Anything like a complete survey of the contemporary English stage would have been altogether beyond my purpose. I have been content to take the luck of the playbill, and so have often fallen upon banyan days. Hence one or two of our foremost dramatists are represented by plays which are certainly not their best. Others, whose names are placarded on the hoardings in the largest type, are not represented at all. Doubtless they have all, the popular and the unpopular, their several stations in the dramatic hierarchy; but it has been no affair of mine to "place" them. That is the function of judicial or dogmatic criticism - of which there are already, I submit, professors enough and to spare. The ideal critic is pictured by the crowd, now as a milestone "standing upon the antique ways," now as a finger-post on the "high priori" road. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.